Successful anaesthetic management of a COVID-positive patient with multiple comorbidities: regional anaesthesia to the rescue

The perioperative anaesthetic management of a case of COVID-19 pneumonia with multiple systemic comorbidities, posted for unilateral below knee amputation and debridement of hand, poses a uniquely challenging scenario for the anaesthesiologist. We hereby report such a case which was managed successf...

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Autores principales: Aghi, Shweta, Muthuswamy, Srinivasan, Bhatia, Nidhi, Kajal, Kamal, Bandyopadhyay, Anjishnujit
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Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8451164/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42077-021-00176-0
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author Aghi, Shweta
Muthuswamy, Srinivasan
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Kajal, Kamal
Bandyopadhyay, Anjishnujit
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description The perioperative anaesthetic management of a case of COVID-19 pneumonia with multiple systemic comorbidities, posted for unilateral below knee amputation and debridement of hand, poses a uniquely challenging scenario for the anaesthesiologist. We hereby report such a case which was managed successfully using ultrasound-guided popliteal and wrist block along with perioperative use of high flow nasal cannula, incentive spirometry and awake proning.
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spelling pubmed-84511642021-09-20 Successful anaesthetic management of a COVID-positive patient with multiple comorbidities: regional anaesthesia to the rescue Aghi, Shweta Muthuswamy, Srinivasan Bhatia, Nidhi Kajal, Kamal Bandyopadhyay, Anjishnujit Ain-Shams J Anesthesiol Letter to the Editor The perioperative anaesthetic management of a case of COVID-19 pneumonia with multiple systemic comorbidities, posted for unilateral below knee amputation and debridement of hand, poses a uniquely challenging scenario for the anaesthesiologist. We hereby report such a case which was managed successfully using ultrasound-guided popliteal and wrist block along with perioperative use of high flow nasal cannula, incentive spirometry and awake proning. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-09-20 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8451164/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42077-021-00176-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title_fullStr Successful anaesthetic management of a COVID-positive patient with multiple comorbidities: regional anaesthesia to the rescue
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title_short Successful anaesthetic management of a COVID-positive patient with multiple comorbidities: regional anaesthesia to the rescue
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